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News for May 2011

Belongings by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, which ends its run at the fringe venue, Hampstead Downstairs, on 11 June, will transfer to the Trafalgar Studios 2 theatre with previews from 16 June, opening on 21st June to 9 July 2011.

The first ever pan-London festival of contemporary Arab culture will take place in London from 4-24 of July this year. The festival is named "Shubbak" and the cross art form event will feature organisations from the sectors of dance, theatre, literature, architecture, film, visual arts and music. Sadler's Wells, The Barbican Centre and the Young Vic are among the many venues taking part.

Rocky Horror show star Tim Curry, due to take on the role of The Player in Trevor Nunn's production of the Tom Stoppard comedy play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 16th June to 20th August, has withdrawn from the play due to ongoing health problems.

The Barbican theatre today announced it's programme to celebrate it's 30th anniversary next year and as part of the London 2012 Festival celebrating the Olympic Games in London. The exciting line up includes Oscar winning actresses Cate Blanchett and Juliette Binoche in two separate projects.

A year after the long-awaited West End show failed to impress, and a four day closure last winter to "retool" still didn't get audiences flocking or appease the critics, a third incarnation of Love Never Dies gears itself up for the critics on the other side of the world.

Thriller - Live, the spectacular concert show that celebrates the music of the world's greatest entertainer and undisputed King of Pop, Michael Jackson, is to celebrate its 1,000th performance in the West End at the Lyric Theatre on Thursday May 26.

After the withdrawl of Simon Ward due to illness during the previews of Pygmalion at the Garrick Theatre, Michael Feast takes over in the role of Alfred Doolittle, the dustman father of Cockney flower girl Eliza, played by Kara Tointon.

The musical Betwixt! by Ian McFarlane will make a West End transfer this summer when it opens at the Trafalgar Studios on Thursday 28th July 2011, following previews from Tuesday 26th July for a limited run until 20th August.

Cabaret star, international singing sensation and post-modern showgirl, Meow Meow, acclaimed for her current performance in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, returns to the stage with her solo West End debut, Meow Meow In Concert for three nights only on 23, 24 and 25 June, with a press performance on the 23 June. Presented by Nica Burns in association with the Soho Theatre, Meow Meow In Concert has musical direction by her frequent collaborator, Emmy Award winning Lance Horne.

Seventy six years after its movie release, Top Hat will receive its world stage premiere at the Milton Keynes Theatre on 16 August 2011 where it opens for the start of an initial 17 UK week tour prior to an anticipated West End transfer in spring 2012. With music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and based on the RKO motion picture, the screenplay by Dwight Taylor and Allan Scott has been adapted for the stage by Matthew White and Howard Jacques and is presented by arrangement with RKO Pictures LLC, Warner Bros Theatre Ventures Inc. and the Irving Berlin Music Company.

After years of rumours and a few smaller independent productions that never quite broke through to the big time, it looks like the Kylie Minogue musical is finally, officially, underway. After the smash hit successes of We Will Rock You, Mamma Mia and Thriller Live! a musical based on the diminutive pop princess' back catalogue has often been rumoured. Speaking to the Irish Echo Minogue has now confirmed the thrilling news that plans are afoot. "It's definitely happening" she says. "We've brought a scriptwriter in and are working on a few synopses. And the critics…music critics are one thing but theatre critics are something else. I suppose if it doesn't work then that's it - it's a closed book."

After receiving rave reviews and selling out at the Tristan Bates Theatre, Thrill Me - The Leopold & Loeb Story makes a transfer for a limited run only to the Charing Cross Theatre from 17th May to 11th June.

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